Seems to me forgotten ART SUPPLIES would be more in the line of...
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
A chapati pan, and two bags of flour (One wheat, one Garam) and a small ammount of fat. Living till the next Giro on a diet of those.
Noodles and cheese sandwiches, were a luxury. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.